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The perplexing mystery of what maintains the solar coronal temperature at about a million K, while the visible disc of the Sun is only at 5800 K, has been a long standing problem in solar physics. A recent study by Mondal(2020) has provided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Shabbir Bawaji , Ujjaini Alam , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

This study examines the shock speed and source height of coronal shock waves using Type II solar radio bursts. The solar radio burst data from January 2022 to October 2023 were obtained from eCALLISTO archive. The type II radio bursts were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 G. L. S. S. Liyanage , J. Adassuriya , K. P. S. C. Jayaratne , C. Monstien

The shape of the electron velocity distribution function plays an important role in the dynamics of the solar wind acceleration. Electrons are normally modelled with three components, the core, the halo, and the strahl. We investigate how…

A differential emission measure (DEM) method is used to evaluate the relationship of the electron density and temperature before and after a coronal rain event during an active sun over the period from 20:10 UT on October 6 to 02:10 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze

We carry out a study of the global three-dimensional (3D) structure of the electron density and temperature of the quiescent inner solar corona ($r<1.25 R_\odot$) by means of tomographic reconstructions and magnetohydrodynamic simulations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. G. Lloveras , A. M. Vásquez , F. A. Nuevo , C. Mac Cormack , N. Sachdeva , W. Manchester , B. Van der Holst , R. A. Frazin

The observations from 1998 April 20 taken with the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer CDS on SOHO of a coronal loop on the limb have shown that the plasma was multi-thermal along each line of sight investigated, both before and after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. T. Schmelz , P. C. H. Martens

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

To explain the high temperature of the corona, much attention has been paid to the distribution of energy in dissipation events. Indeed, if the event energy distribution is steep enough, the smallest, unobservable events could be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Vincent Joulin , Éric Buchlin , Jacques Solomon , Chloé Guennou

We present a detailed analysis of oxygen ion velocity distributions in the extended solar corona, based on observations made with the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) on the SOHO spacecraft. Polar coronal holes at solar minimum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Cranmer , Alexander V. Panasyuk , John L. Kohl

Coronal loops in active regions are the subjects of intensive investigation, but the important diffuse 'unresolved' emission in which they are embedded has received relatively little attention. Here we measure the densities and emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 David H. Brooks

Knowledge of the occupation ratio and the energy splitting of a two-level system yields a direct readout of its temperature. Based on this principle, the determination of the temperature of an individual two-level magnetic atom was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Y. del Castillo , J. Fernández-Rossier

For the first time, we have used RHESSI's spatial and energy resolution to determine the combined chromospheric and coronal density profile of the flaring solar atmosphere in a statistical manner, using a dataset of 838 flares observable in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Sam Krucker , Robert P. Lin

The large availability and rich spectral coverage of today's observational data of the solar corona, and the high spatial and temporal resolution of many instruments, has enabled the evolution of three-dimensional (3D) physical models to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Alberto Marcos Vásquez

In the solar corona and solar wind, electron heat conduction is an important process that transports energy over large distances and helps determine the spatial variation of temperature. High-density regions undergoing rapid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Steven R. Cranmer , Avery J. Schiff

Coronal emission line intensities are commonly used to measure electron temperatures using emission measure and/or line ratio methods. In the presence of systematic errors in atomic excitation calculations and data noise, the information on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Philip G Judge

The recent analysis of observations taken with the EIS instrument on Hinode suggests that well constrained measurements of the temperature distribution in solar active regions can finally be made. Such measurements are critical for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger , David H. Brooks

Determining the relative brightness of the solar corona is one of the most critical stages in solar eclipse studies. For this purpose, images taken with different exposures and polarization angles in white-light observations are used. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Hikmet Çakmak

Recently a distinctive class of hard X ray (HXR) sources located in the corona was found, which implies that the collisionally thick target model (CTTM) applies even to the corona. We investigated whether this idea can independently be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeongwoo Lee , Daye Lim , G. S. Choe , Kap-Sung Kim , Minhwan Jang

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Aims. We use advanced 3D NLTE radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmosphere to carry out detailed tests of chromospheric diagnostics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. Methods. We focused on the diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Maria Loukitcheva , Sami Solanki , Mats Carlsson , Stephen White